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Serafini has the skills to bring about much-needed change; Stronger evidence needed to support Donoghue's argument; Munson has shown the ability to work with both sides of the aisle
8 Sep 2010, 6:44 pm | click here to view more
The Business of Death
A few years ago, the families of deceased Wal-Mart employees filed a class action suit against the store’s “dead peasant” policies, life insurance plans taken out on low-ranking workers without their consent or involvement, thus allowing Wal-Mart to collect money as a result of their deaths (no matter how they died).
8 Sep 2010, 6:43 pm | click here to view more
The banks can look forward to normality
The end of an extra layer of regulation will benefit many Canadians
8 Sep 2010, 6:42 pm | click here to view more
Chicago mulls future without a powerful Daley at the helm, wonders what next era could bring
CHICAGO - The last time Chicago was left without a Daley at the helm, the next mayor was thrown out of office by voters mad because he couldn't keep snow off the streets.
8 Sep 2010, 6:42 pm | click here to view more
Here come the girls: Why the new generation of female graduates has it better than ever
Youth, eh. Who'd have it? Graduate unemployment, up 25 per cent. One million young people, stuck out of work. 600,000 public-sector jobs headed... well, not to the private sector, that's for sure: they've already warned that they won't be picking up the pieces. And the debt! £23,000 a head, just for a degree. A degree which, as it turns out, doesn't equate to quite the career it once promised ...
8 Sep 2010, 6:10 pm | click here to view more
Art of the art game: Peter Bazalgette reveals how curators can take control of their own media coverage
Those who know Peter Bazalgette primarily as the man who brought Big Brother to these shores may not look him as the obvious authority on how the arts can grow its media presence at a time when it is braced for deep cuts. But the former Endemol chairman is the deputy chairman of the English National Opera (ENO) and is excited about the opportunities for arts institutions to bypass traditional ...
8 Sep 2010, 6:09 pm | click here to view more
Adrian Hamilton: The bonfire of a pastor's vanity
We've been here before and, no doubt, we'll be here soon enough again. Twenty-one years ago the Muslims of Bradford were burning copies of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, as well as effigies of the author himself. Today we have a tiny church in the US, the ironically named Dove World Outreach middle in Gainesville, Florida, planning to burn a couple of hundred copies of the Koran on ...
8 Sep 2010, 6:09 pm | click here to view more
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
( Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres ) Factoring the planet's multi-trillion dollar ecosystem services into policy-making can help keep cities and regional authorities money while boosting the local economy, enhancing quality of life, securing livelihoods and generating employment.This is the finding from a major international study, launched in a report by TEEB for Local and ...
8 Sep 2010, 6:05 pm | click here to view more
Comment on One on One with Chandra Muzaffar: The Quest for National Unity by semper fi
Din Has Malaysia scraped the bottom of the barrel? Isn't there any other qualified candidate to be the seat of the Board for 1Malaysia? My question still stick. Is Chandra still pertinent or relevant. His ideas on National Unity are not even his to start with. He has been on both sides of the pendulum swing. Cari makan beb. In PKR he went every out against the government. Then when BN start ...
8 Sep 2010, 10:01 am | click here to view more
DEP investigating the source of stray methane gas in Bradford county
The state Department of Environmental Protection is investigating the source of methane gas that bubbled up in the North Branch of the Susquehanna River close Sugar Run and six private water wells in Wilmot Township last week.The sites are in the same ge
7 Sep 2010, 10:07 pm | click here to view more